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Not sure how similar they are, maybe extremely, but I really loved Borland C++ Builder 4. Making GUI apps was so painless. I tried XCode but it was so complica
by yesenadam 5y ago
Not sure how similar they are, maybe extremely, but I really loved Borland C++ Builder 4. Making GUI apps was so painless.
I tried XCode but it was so complicated to do anything I gave up after a couple of weeks of reading docs.
- mikewarot 5y agoI looked at the C++ version, but after you built a form, and started hooking up events, there was orders of magnitude more boilerplate code staring you in the face, and it wasn't something that you could edit without breaking things. In pascal, you could edit the form, or the source, and nothing broke. There were also far fewer lines of code required to do something.
- yesenadam 5y agoWell, I've nothing to compare it with, but I never needed to look at most of the boilerplate, (wasn't it in the header, which I never looked at? I think I looked at the pages of boilerplate once ever), could just make any necessary changes in the Object Inspector. Never had problems breaking stuff, maybe because I made changes that way. In fact I realized some time later that I'd been writing C! Like the person who realized they'd been talking prose all their life. Now (sometimes) I just write in C, never C++. p.s. I started (after BASIC) with Turbo Pascal, in the 80s. That was so awesome for its day.